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With the seasonality of our Christmas Cactus, it just seems that I'm
obsessed with taking advantage of its magnificence (there's several more
decent shots where this came from).
I remembered about my seldom-used Speedlight 430EZ. It's been a while since I even thought about this superb but older strobe unit. So I used it to awaken our beautiful cactus, but at 1/2 power with a studio diffuser to soften the flash.
Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight;
And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
-Omer Khayyam-
I am becoming obsessed with this location at sunset, it's so perfect! Thankfully no one lives there currently, so I like to hike up there are steal some shots.
For some odd reason, it was rather difficult to stand on my toes like that - I kept falling! So, many takes later, I finally took something that worked out the way I was hoping for.
But instead of doing my homework like I should be...I went out and ventured the streets at sunset!
If I were you, I would view this on black, but you know, that's just me...
Tom Otterness (b. 1952 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks in New York---
most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station---and other cities around the world. His style is very cartoonish and cheerful, and the forms of his sculptures often consist of many blobs and pipes, giving them a humorous look. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and crocodiles crawling out from under sewer covers. The main theme of his work seems to be the struggle of the little man against the Capitalist machine in a difficult and strange city.
As primarily a public artist, Otterness' has shown popular exhibitions in locations across the United States, including New York City, Indianapolis, and Beverly Hills. His studio is located in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn.
His most recent exhibition of public sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan is his largest to date, featuring more than 40 works across two miles of the city's downtown area and at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.
Otterness is best known to New Yorkers for his "Life Underground" series of sculptures, which are primarily located in the 14th St/8th Avenue subway station, which was commissioned in 2000 and fully installed by 2002.
Journalist Gary Indiana criticized Otterness for an independent work done while part of the East Village art scene in the mid-eighties called "Shot Dog Piece", in which Otterness allegedly "adopted a dog and then shot it to death for the fun of recording his infantile, sadistic depravity on film." When student Matthew Goad, a candidate for student government president at Wichita State University, learned of this act, Wichita State began questioning a USD$450,000 commission, which would cost an additional USD$150,000 for shipping, however, at present it looks as if the project continued may as planned. Otterness commented that "In 1977, I was a young artist having a very rough time. I had anger at myself and at the world. What I did was symbolic of how I was feeling internally and it is something I would never do today.
1952 Born in Wichita, Kansas
1970 Art Students League, New York
1973 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Member of Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (Post 1984)
2004 Untitled, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands Tornado of Ideas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
2003 The Return of the Four-Leggeds, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Spokane, WA; to be installed in 2003
2002 Life Underground, Metropolitan Transit Authority and Arts for Transit, 14th Street and 8th Avenue, New York, NY; to be installed 2002
2002 Untitled, Branchbrook Park Station, New Jersey Transit, Newark, NJ
2001 Suspended Mind, Carl Sagan Discovery Center, Montefiore Children's Hospital, Bronx, NY
2000 Time and Money, Hilton Hotel at Times Square, Forest City Ratner Corporation, NYC
1999 Rockman, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Minneapolis, MN
Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect), Martha Schwartz (Landscape Architect)
Feats of Strength, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The Music Lesson, Music School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Calloway Johnson Moore & West (Architect)
Gold Rush, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Sacramento, CA
Nacht & Lewis/Hansen Lind Meyer (Architects)
1998 The Gates, Cleveland Public Library, in collaboration with Maya Lin (Artist) and Tan Lin (Poet) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (Architect)
1997 Visionary, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY Law of Nature, The Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse, General Services Administration, Portland, OR Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect)
1996 The Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Roosevelt Island, NY
1995 Dreamers Awake, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Untitled, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California
The Roses Of The Woods by Daniel Arrhakis (2015)
There are roses that make remember us the beauty of a moment or the sweet memory of someone ...
For see other products and the use of this image, you are welcome to visit my recent account in :
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With the music : A Moment Lost - Enya
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Work made for the INCREDIBLE PLANTS - AWAKE CHALLENGE # 7 - (June 1 to 30 of 2015) :
www.flickr.com/groups/awakeartforacause/discuss/721576536...
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My last work for this week ! Thank you always for your visit and kind support ! : )
Wish you a great rest of the week and weekend dear friends ! I go try catching up these days ... Flickr don't help but i will try !
Shake the dreams from your hair my pretty child!
Rosa species leaves beginnings
quote from Jim Morrison
Awoke on Explore - Thanks everyone!
Highest position: 495 on Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wow after going to the zoo year after year I finally found an awake and alert Koala.
I don't know how many times I went to find them sleeping behind glass under their heat lamp. After years I was starting to wonder if they really just stuck some stuffed animals in the window and this was all a joke on us.
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Part of the story "Time off" on lephotograph.blogspot.com/2010/02/time-off.html